Conferences

In an age of globalization, popular culture has been increasingly analyzed through transnational perspectives to reveal how local, national, international, and global dynamics influence and shape the form and content of a given cultural artifact, and impact its production, consumption, and regulation. Comics can cross national and cultural boundaries in a variety of contexts: from […]

Darkness is a complex concept. In a real and a metaphorical sense it invites contemplation and imagination of the sad, the unknown, the fearful and unwholesome desires. At the same time it is thrilling and strangely attractive, playing with deep and persistent cultural and metaphysical tensions of good and evil , right and wrong. Darkness

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, March 29-31, 2019, in Anaheim, CA.  The organizers seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Poststructuralism: Past, Present, Future Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Faculty of Philosophy March 6-7, 2019. In the 1960s and 1970s, a new approach to doing philosophy arose in France that subsequently came to be labelled ‘poststructuralism.’ Building on the insights of structuralism, a number of thinkers, most of whom rejected the label ‘poststructuralist,’

The 1960s are known as a period of profound economic, social and political turmoil. In Western societies, revolutionary uproars directly impacted the bourgeois ideal of the nuclear family inherited from the 19th century. In this family structure, the head of household is an all-powerful father wielding his authority over wife and children. The male breadwinner–female